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The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center was awarded $22.3 million from the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT), accounting for 30 percent of the $73.5 million in awards CPRIT announced today. The awards included...

The team that first unveiled the rapid, inexpensive, highly sensitive CRISPR-based diagnostic tool called SHERLOCK has greatly enhanced the tool's power to work with a miniature paper test, similar to a pregnancy test, allowing rapid and simple...

With a sophisticated multidisciplinary approach
to cancer care and a vast amount of experience
in patient outcomes, it’s not uncommon for
MD Anderson doctors to offer a significantly
different diagnosis or treatment option to those
seeking second...

California's insurance commissioner has launched an investigation into Aetna after learning a former medical director for the insurer admitted under oath he never looked at patients' records when deciding whether to approve or deny care.

A single "no" vote from 150 male students would have caused Geneva Medical College to reject Elizabeth Blackwell in 1847.

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Ashish KamatGoogle is honoring Blackwell today to commemorate the 197th of her birth. The first female MD in the US got into college because men thought it was a joke qz.com/1197556 via @qz #looklikeasurgeon @Google
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A new phase I clinical trial conducted by researchers at the Center for Cancer Research (CCR) is evaluating the safety and tolerability, or the degree to which any side effects can be tolerated by patients, of a two-drug combination as a potential...

U.S. scientists helped devise the Crispr biotechnology tool that has captured global attention for its potential to treat incurable diseases. The first to test it in humans are Chinese doctors, who don’t face the same regulatory hurdles as American...